Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

Posted Aug 11, 2007 22:12 UTC (Sat) by tyhik (subscriber, #14747)
In reply to: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek) by zooko
Parent article: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

Getting rid of swap may help you. RAM is cheap and apps running amok are rapidly cought by OOM killer. I have run my own desktops both at work and at home swapless for a few years now. As I build my kernels myself, I have an added bonus of simpler and possibly faster VM subsystem in the kernel (though I haven't benchmarked the difference).

I have asked a number of friends and colleagues of why they have configured swap for their linux desktops/laptops and for most of them it really boils down to: they have always done that.

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